Monday, September 22, 2014

Responding to "Why Poor Students Struggle"

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My response to this at the NYTimes: James Horn   Cambridge, MA   Pending Approval I think you might trust many of the souls to com...
Sunday, September 21, 2014

Will Humans Allow Capitalism to Destroy Life on Earth?

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Today 400,000 say No in NYC.   What do you say?
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The Plan Is Working: Real Teachers Quit

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with links to research study, from MSU website : Contrary to popular opinion, unruly students are not driving out teachers in droves fro...

Paying Off Time on the Lazy River with Lives on the Corporate Treadmill

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The New York Times has a piece today about the latest in the recreational arms race at the second and third tier colleges that are educati...
Saturday, September 20, 2014

Breaking Non-News: All 4 of MA's New Low-Scoring Schools Have High Poverty Scores

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And the planned cultural sterilization and segregation turnaround plans continue . . . .At first glance, we may want to blame th...
Friday, September 19, 2014

Andre Agassi's New Passion: Corporate Welfare

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Andre Agassi is touring the country checking out the 27 charter schools he has built with real estate tycoon, Bobby Turner. Agassi says i...
Thursday, September 18, 2014

Textbooks and the Texas Taliban

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a clip from Alternet : . . . .The latest battle in the ongoing war to turn public schools into propaganda machines for the right is be...

Reprise: Re-Review of Paul Tough's Biggest Hit

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When I looking this morning for the publication date of Paul Tough's neo-eugenics manifesto, How Children Succeed . . ., I saw that it ...
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Wednesday, September 17, 2014

Are Standardized Tests Helpful?

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from the most recent PDK/Gallup poll :

New Group Forms PAC to Fight Charter Takeover in Nashville

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From the Tennessean : Parents in East Nashville are moving quickly to fight Director of Schools Jesse Register’s far-reaching plan to c...